Salone Sehgal And Aditya Deshpande On India’s Interactive Media Consumer At WAVES 2025

India’s interactive media consumer is swiping, watching, playing and paying in new ways, and at WAVES 2025, Lumikai launched new research mapping how.

As a sub-committee member of WAVES 2025, the World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit hosted by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in Mumbai, Lumikai hosted two sessions for the media and entertainment ecosystem.

The first, From Swipes to Stories: India’s Interactive Media Consumer Unlocked, marked the launch of Lumikai’s latest consumer research report. Lumikai’s Salone Sehgal and Aditya Deshpande presented insights from more than 3,000 mobile users across India, after opening remarks from Shuji Utsumi, President and COO of SEGA, on India’s growing importance in the global gaming landscape.

The second, Billion Dollar Bets: Investor View on Gaming’s Next Frontier, was a panel moderated by Salone Sehgal, Founder and Managing Partner of Lumikai, with Othman Alhokail, Founder and Managing Partner of Merak Capital; Deepen Parikh, Partner at Courtside Ventures; and Shivanandan Pare, Head of Corporate Development at Gameskraft. The sessions were insightful and led to engaging conversations for the members of the ecosystem, policy makers, young founders, and stakeholders in attendance.

Explore our research.